Poetry/ Comparative

Question 1

Scarcity

Answer 1

Dearth, deficiency, paucity, meagreness, absence

Question 2

Descriptive

Answer 2

Expository, explanatory, interpretive, illustrative, illuminating (clarify)

Question 3

Simultaneously

Answer 3

Concurrently, synchronously, accompanied, coincide

Question 4

Detailed

Answer 4

Scrupulous, fastidious, meticulous, hypercritical, punctilious

Question 5

Adj - having good insight or understanding; perceptive

Answer 5

Percipient (he is a percipient interpreter of the public mood)

Question 6

Turmoil

Answer 6

Tribulation, hardship, austerity, affliction, calamity, misfortune, misery, distress

Question 7

Extreme poverty (2)

Answer 7

Destitution, penury (he couldn’t face another year of penury)

Question 8

Skilful

Answer 8

Accomplished, gifted, apt, competent, talented, expert, artful, well versed in, ingenious (clever, inventive, original)

Question 9

Repercussion

Answer 9

By virtue of, owing to, on account of, ramifications

Question 10

Harrowing

Answer 10

Traumatic, barbaric, distressing, tortuous, afflict (verb - cause pain/trouble), haunting, grievous

Question 11

Reality

Answer 11

Fact, truth, actuality (state of existing in reality), conditions, circumstances, literal

Question 12

Noun - a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance

Answer 12

Verity (we have great verities to preach)

Question 13

Confuse

Answer 13

Mislead, bewilder, baffle, complex, puzzle, beyond me, confound, perplex, bemuse, discombobulate, mysterious

Question 14

Adj - open to interpretation

Answer 14

Ambiguous